This avoids a regression for issues like #334 where high speed
repeated connections eventually run the HTTP client out of
sockets because all of theirs end up in time_wait.
Maybe the trade-off here is suboptimal, but if both choices will
fail then we prefer fewer changes until the root cause is solved.
Rebased-From: 1a25a7edf87d2cb48511
Github-Pull: #5674
It turns out that some miners have been staying with old versions of
Bitcoin Core because their software behaves poorly with persistent
connections and the Bitcoin Core thread and connection limits.
What happens is that underlying HTTP libraries leave connections open
invisibly to their users and then the user runs into the default four
thread limit. This looks like Bitcoin Core is unresponsive to RPC.
There are many things that should be improved in Bitcoin Core's behavior
here, e.g. supporting more concurrent connections, not tying up threads
for idle connections, disconnecting kept-alive connections when limits
are reached, etc. All are fairly big, risky changes.
Disabling keep-alive is a simple workaround. It's often not easy to turn
off the keep-alive support in the client where it may be buried in some
platform library.
If you are one of the few who really needs persistent connections you
probably know that you want them and can find a switch; while if you
don't and the misbehavior is hitting you it is hard to discover the
source of your problems is keepalive related. Given that it is best
to default to off until they're handled better.
Github-Merge: #5655
Rebased-From: 16a5c18cea56c1093dae1dd8ee72af
34318d7 RPC-test based on invalidateblock for mempool coinbase spends (Gavin Andresen)
7fd6219 Make CTxMemPool::remove more effecient by avoiding recursion (Matt Corallo)
b7b4318 Make CTxMemPool::check more thourough by using CheckInputs (Matt Corallo)
723d12c Remove txn which are invalidated by coinbase maturity during reorg (Matt Corallo)
868d041 Remove coinbase-dependant transactions during reorg. (Matt Corallo)
- rest block request returns full unfolded tx details
- /rest/block/notxdetails/<HASH> returns block where transactions are only represented by its hash
Immature coinbase spends are allowed in the memory pool if they can be mined in the next block.
They are not allowed in the memory pool if they cannot be mined in the next block.
This regression test tests those edge cases.
Ported txnmall.sh to Python, and updated to match
recent transaction malleability changes.
I also modified it so it tests both double-spending
confirmed and unconfirmed (only-in-mempool) transactions.
Renamed to txn_doublespend, since that is really what is
being tested. And told the pull-tester to run both
variations on this test.
3c30f27 travis: disable rpc tests for windows until they're not so flaky (Cory Fields)
daf03e7 RPC tests: create initial chain with specific timestamps (Gavin Andresen)
a8b2ce5 regression test only setmocktime RPC call (Gavin Andresen)
